Month: October 2016

Online reputation management has been the new savior for people who are being over shadowed by negative information about them on the internet. Businesses sometimes run into this problem as well. They often have to utilize the services of a reputation management company in order to soften the blow of negative publicity. Fortunately, there is a company that can help manage your businesses online reputation the company is called The Search Fixers.

The Search Fixers are experts in helping businesses revamp their images through the use of reputation management practices. The company is also located in the United States, so business can be assured that they are not at the mercy of doing business with a foreign entity. Thesearchfixers.com is the company website (http://thesearchfixers.com) and interested business owners can go to the site, submit their information, and get advice from top industry consultants that understand the mechanics behind online reputation management.

Knowing how search engines operate online plays a huge part in solving a reputation management problem. Often businesses and individuals may come across negative information that can be found by performing a search on a search engine. The consultants at The Search Fixers know how to virtually remove these negative search inquiries by simply making negative information look old to a search engine. Providing updated, positive, and more engaging content often pushes negative and old information away from the eyes of people who may be online searching for information. By having newer information available this often interests inquiring minds more than information that can be discredited by appearing old and out of date.

People are always looking for jobs and looking to work for companies that can hire them based on their skills. These companies that are doing the hiring have been made aware that the best places to find information about an individual is by investigating the individual’s social media profiles. The Search Fixers know to redirect the attention of the hiring managers to positive information that can be found on an individual’s profile. The reputation management firm also makes recommendations for people to fix negative reviews, profile images, or rants if these options are available to their clients.

Being aware of what is online in regard to a business’s or individual’s reputation is very important. It is also important to be able to have access to a company like The Search Fixers if a reputation management issues is spotted.

To learn more about online reputation management, head over to the Huffington Post

Mike Baur is a successful Swiss entrepreneur who has also invested in venture capitalism. In 2014, Mike Baur co-founded the Swiss Startup Factory, which incubates startups through a series of programs that touch on various areas of business. The successes of Mike Baur cannot be explored fully until the activities and achievements of the Swiss Startup Factory are revealed. Here is a preview of what the company does and what they have for the future.

Talent acceleration

One of the areas the Swiss Startup Company has invested in is ensuring talents are honored and accorded the requisite support to bring out the hidden potential in individuals. The company, through the accelerator program, offers a platform that helps to nurture talent and gives access to financing options. The Swiss Startup Company is connected to many companies that are willing to invest in others’ talents, and this makes it easier for individuals to receive the financial support they need to implement their ideas.

Three-month acceleration program for startups

The acceleration program for startups entails access to financing and business development models that are relevant to the ideas presented by different people. To make the program more effective, the Swiss Startup Company has partnered with some of the best universities in Switzerland to help broaden the information base of the institution and to welcome the best brains in the business world for contributions.

These services extend to leadership and management to allow the startups grow into well established businesses after the program. The Wenger & Veli, which also works with the Swiss Startup Factory, offers legal and tax support to the startups. The package also includes a branding and PR division that creates a strategy on behalf of the startup. Additionally, Swiss Startup Factory invites fundraising events that make it possible to offer all the services outlined in the program free of charge to the startups.

Mike Baur is part of the team responsible for the establishment of the Swiss Startup Factory. He also invests a lot of his time and money into the company to ensure it serves its purpose effectively. He also moderates the fundraising program for the company and sees that every startup under the company is fully supported.

Having formerly worked as a Clariden and Sallfort banker, Mike Buar boasts of an experience spanning more than 20 years. His educational credentials can be traced to the University of Rochester, where he earned his MBA. He also holds an Executive MBA from Bern University.

IAP WORLDWIDE is a global organization with numerous initiatives and operations, as you may well know or may have guessed from the implied title and reputation of this unique company as a whole. They do not mess around, and they certainly know when, where, and how to get a job done…..delivering but no less than the best of the best of the bets in quality service to their limitless clients and repeated partners & customers all throughout the digital globe.

Let me put it this way. I will make for a quote which puts things in a way in which I could never have even thought to say them myself in a million years if I were Albert Einstein himself. And I quote:

“At IAP Worldwide, our mission is to solve your most challenging problems using proven technology, expertise, and ingenuity. When you partner with us, we take your ultimate goals and make them our own, and we do not rest until we have delivered the results you need. To achieve this, we rely on four competencies……”

The four competencies themselves have just been listed, and are all five but for values. They do not include the last value as one, because value is itself an implied value and competency….and they do not need to repeat themselves in this matter. Case in point, the less redundant is better.

Practice Intellectual Curiosity and Rigor
Act with Integrity and Humility
Provide Inspirational leadership and follower ship, enabled by empathy
Act nicely, responsibly and swiftly
Act with resolve, adapting to and embracing change
Allow ourselves and others to be happy and successful
Pursue growth and learning
Partner with colleagues, customers, and community for our mutual success

In summary, IAP WORLDWIDE is a special one of a kind global initiative whose roots are deeply embedded and well portrayed within its own system of values. Such a system serves as a base and a catalyst for the operations and functions of the company as a whole. They are crucial.

In her profile of the Venezuelan human rights activist Thor Halvorssen, Rosie Gray of Buzzfeed successfully manages to sort through the controversy, hearsay and actual facts to present a balanced portrait of the enigmatic figure. Although Halvorssen refers to himself as a “classical liberal,” he does not fit comfortably into either the liberal or conservative camps.

Halvorssen’s early work with his Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reveals his vehement rejection of political correctness. A rejection that allows him to spread his gospel of overthrowing authoritarian regimes in some unlikely places, like fringe conservative Frank Gaffney’s radio show. Halvorssen claims to be apolitical with human rights the only focus of his and his Human Rights Foundation’s attention.

In addition to organizing campaigns against oppressive regimes, the Human Rights Foundation invests a large amount of time and resources into the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual gathering of human rights activists and their supporters. From humble beginnings, the conference has grown to include representatives from fifty-seven different countries totaling at least 450 attendees. Halvorssen, who is of Norwegian descent, chose Oslo as the forum’s location because of Norway’s famed neutrality.

Although the donors to the Human Rights Foundation are made public by the foundation itself, some of the foundation’s major donors were called into question for supporting anti-Muslim causes by writer Max Blumenthal on the pro-Palestinian website Electronica Intifada. Halvorssen dismissed the criticism as a guilt by association ploy and pointed out that the same donors contribute to causes as varied as the Museum of the Rockies and the Friends of the Dallas Public Library.

No stranger to controversy, Halvorssen grew up in a very polarized Venezuela, his father was a senior aide to President Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodriguez. Thor Halvorssen saw the fall of the Pérez Presidency and the takeover by Hugo Chávez. Halvorssen also saw his father, who had supplied critical information about the laundering of drug money in Venezuela to the C.I.A., railroaded into prison by the Chávez government.

It was his father’s imprisonment, and the successful campaign to have him released, that first sparked Halvorssen’s desire to defend human rights.

This desire was galvanized when his mother was shot and badly wounded at a protest that questioned the legitimacy of the vote in Venezuela. Though some may question Halvorssen’s apolitical nature, none can question his overt commitment to human rights causes.